Broke and Broken: The Shocking Fall of ‘Pawn Stars’ Big Hoss Corey Harrison

LAS VEGAS, NV. (THECOUNT) — Corey Harrison, known to millions of “Pawn Stars” fans as “Big Hoss,” has turned to GoFundMe to help cover more than $100,000 in medical bills after a near-fatal motorcycle crash in Tulum, Mexico — even as his father, “Pawn Stars” star Rick Harrison, sits on an estimated $9 million fortune that includes a 29-car collection and an 80-acre off-grid ranch in Oregon, according to published reports.

The crash occurred in late January 2026, just days before Rick Harrison married Angie Polushkin in Cancun, Mexico. The 42-year-old Harrison, who relocated to Tulum after leaving “Pawn Stars” in 2024, was riding his motorcycle when he was involved in a crash that left him with 11 fractured ribs, a punctured lung, a concussion, and facial injuries, according to the GoFundMe page organized by close friend Aron Chambers. Harrison was unable to attend his father’s wedding. Rick Harrison later told Fox News that he drove to Tulum to visit his son at the hospital. “I wanted him to be there. He was one of my groomsmen,” Rick said. “But fortunately, he lives just a couple hours from Cancun. So I was able to drive down there and see him in the hospital, make sure everything was all right.”

According to the GoFundMe, Harrison was initially hospitalized in Playa del Carmen, a resort city in the state of Quintana Roo in southeastern Mexico, approximately 40 miles south of Cancun. He spent two weeks there before checking himself out against medical advice, as the mounting bills had become unmanageable. Healthcare facilities in Mexico frequently require payment up front, and costs had already surpassed $100,000 at the time of his discharge. “Corey emptied his entire bank account to cover what he could,” Chambers wrote. “Friends, including myself, maxed out credit cards just to keep his treatment going.” Harrison himself told TMZ that by the time the GoFundMe launched, he had just $400 left in his bank account.

Shortly after returning to his Tulum home, Harrison’s oxygen levels dropped to dangerous levels. Chambers wrote that Harrison told those around him, “I’m just going to die out here. I don’t have the money to keep paying these people.” Friends then drove Harrison approximately 4.5 hours to a more affordable hospital in Mérida, the capital city of the Mexican state of Yucatán. New X-rays there revealed that one rib had fully separated and was pressing into his lung. Surgeons drained nearly three liters of blood from his chest cavity and performed three life-saving procedures. Harrison spent an additional 18 days recovering in the Mérida hospital before being discharged in early March 2026. As of the time of publication, he remains in Tulum and is not yet well enough to travel back to the United States.

Chambers noted in the fundraiser that Harrison was reluctant to accept certain pain medications during his ordeal, citing the January 2024 fentanyl overdose death of his younger brother, Adam Harrison. “Being on television and part of Pawn Stars fame doesn’t come with a built-in safety net for emergencies like this — medical crises don’t care about celebrity status,” Chambers wrote.

The GoFundMe campaign has set a goal of $100,000 to cover medical costs, ongoing medications, and three months of back rent on Harrison’s Tulum residence. Harrison addressed donors in a March 5, 2026 update. “Thank you so much to the people who have donated! I don’t know if anyone out there has broken ribs but this is awful!! I will keep everyone updated on my condition.”

The question of how Corey Harrison — a television personality for 17 seasons on one of cable TV’s most-watched programs — arrived at near-financial ruin is a complicated one. Celebrity Net Worth currently places his net worth at just $10,000, according to a report published this week by Distractify, though other published estimates have placed the figure as high as $4 million. Regardless of which figure is accurate, his $400 bank account balance at the time of the GoFundMe launch tells its own story. Harrison earned an estimated $15,000 to $20,000 per episode during his run on “Pawn Stars.” Two divorces — from Charlene Harrison in 2015 and Korina “Kiki” Harrison in 2018 — are believed to have taken a significant financial toll. A 2023 DUI arrest in Las Vegas added further legal costs. Harrison left “Pawn Stars” in 2024 without renewing his contract and relocated full-time to Tulum, where he has been developing a barbecue restaurant concept and hosting a podcast called “The Corey Harrison Show.”

The contrast between Corey’s circumstances and those of his father is stark. Rick Harrison, 60, is estimated to be worth $9 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth, derived primarily from his salary on “Pawn Stars,” ownership of the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, and real estate holdings. He reportedly earns approximately $100,000 per episode of the show, according to published reports. He has spoken publicly about his collection of 29 vehicles and owns an 80-acre off-grid ranch outside Port Orford, Oregon, which includes three houses, two garages, and a fully equipped machine shop powered entirely by solar energy. Rick Harrison has not publicly commented on the GoFundMe campaign.

“Pawn Stars” premiered on the History Channel on July 19, 2009, and became one of the highest-rated programs in cable television history. The series is set at the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop at 713 South Las Vegas Boulevard in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. Las Vegas is the largest city in Nevada, located in Clark County in the southern part of the state, approximately 270 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Tulum is a coastal municipality in the state of Quintana Roo in southeastern Mexico, approximately 80 miles south of Cancún on the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán Peninsula.

Donations can be made at GoFundMe.

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